Classical musician Zuill Bailey finds himself on the road about 230 days a year, and that does not count his professorship at the University of Texas El at Paso.

Widely considered one of the premiere cellists in the world, he joked, “With all the travel, my cello case is shot.”

But not the magnificent 1693 Matteo Gofriller instrument inside — the very one audiences will see and hear Sunday at Strathmore when he performs Antonin Dvorak’s beloved Cello Concerto with the National Philharmonic under the baton of music director and conductor Piotr Gajewski.